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GS752TP, GS728TP, and GS728TPP Gigabit Smart Switches
Configure ARP
The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) associates a Layer 2 MAC address with a Layer 3
IPv4 address. The switch software features both dynamic and manual ARP configuration.
With manual ARP configuration, you can statically add entries to the ARP table.
ARP is a necessary part of the Internet Protocol (IP) and is used to translate an IP address to
a media (MAC) address, defined by a local area network (LAN) such as Ethernet. A station
needing to send an IP packet must learn the MAC address of the IP destination, or of the next
hop router, if the destination is not on the same subnet. Learning is achieved by broadcasting
an ARP request packet, to which the intended recipient responds with a unicast ARP reply
containing its MAC address. Once learned, the MAC address is used in the destination
address field of the Layer 2 header prepended to the IP packet.
The ARP cache is a table maintained locally in each station on a network. ARP cache entries
are learned by examining the source information in the ARP packet payload fields, regardless
of whether it is an ARP request or response. Thus, when an ARP request is broadcast to all
stations on a LAN segment or virtual LAN (VLAN), every recipient has the opportunity to store
the sender’s IP and MAC address in its respective ARP cache. The ARP response, being
unicast, is normally seen only by the requestor, who stores the sender information in its ARP
cache. Newer information always replaces existing content in the ARP cache.
The NETGEAR switches support 1024 ARP entries in switch mode and approximately 100 in
router mode. These entries include dynamic and static ARP entries.
Devices can be moved in a network, which means the IP address that was at one time
associated with a certain MAC address is now found using a different MAC address, or might
have disappeared from the network altogether (that is, it has been reconfigured,
disconnected, or powered off). This leads to stale information in the ARP cache unless
entries are updated in reaction to new information seen on the network, periodically refreshed
to determine if an address still exists, or removed from the cache if the entry has not been
identified as a sender of an ARP packet during an ageout interval, specified through
configuration.
From the ARP menu, you can access features described in the following sections:
ARP Cache
ARP Entry Configuration
Global ARP Configuration
ARP Entry Management
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